Electroconvulsive therapy in a patient with severe tic and major depressive episode.
A patient with a disabling tic and a major depressive episode responded partially to phenelzine, but relapsed after medication was withdrawn because of hypertensive and hepatotoxic reactions. The patient's motor and affective symptoms resolved after electroconvulsive therapy, and he remains asymptomatic after 1 year.
Swerdlow
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Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093.
Gierz
M
M
Berkowitz
A
A
Nemiroff
R
R
Lohr
J
J
D000368:Aged; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D004565:Electroconvulsive Therapy; D006801:Humans; D008140:Lorazepam / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008297:Male; D010624:Phenelzine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011149:Pons / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D013981:Tic Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D008140:Lorazepam; D010624:Phenelzine